History

"Kaikilianos’ victory!"

This statue base is inscribed with a commemoration of a champion wrestler called Kaikilianos, who won a wrestling competition organized every five years by a local notable named Flavianus in the Hellenistic city of Anemurium. pic.twitter.com/yZnJb2XNFO

— Stone Age Herbalist (@Paracelsus1092) October 19, 2024

 

An Insight

The irony of the person who is in charge of the country’s finances {Rachel Reeves} claiming £1,225 on taxpayer funded expenses to pay someone else to help file her tax return…https://t.co/5RKHEMmZUf

— James Melville 🚜 (@JamesMelville) October 13, 2024

 

I see wonderful things

The many varieties of tomatoes

📹 Jose Ponce pic.twitter.com/VuYKH3sgdg

— Science girl (@gunsnrosesgirl3) October 20, 2024

 

Offbeat Humor

Can't believe @elonmusk parks his rocket better than I park my car. Bloody show-off.

— Mark Collard (@profmarkcollard) October 13, 2024

 

The prevalent ideas on the subject are not creditable to a civilized community.

From The Complete Saki.  Page 8.

There ought (he continued) to be technical education classes on the science of present-giving. No one seems to have the faintest notion of what any one else wants, and the prevalent ideas on the subject are not creditable to a civilized community.

Data Talks

Half of US immigrants fall into the leftmost (net negative) bucket. Seems like it would be really easy to just… not take those ones but still take the others. pic.twitter.com/OWmLifx9NT

— Hunter Ash (@ArtemisConsort) October 13, 2024

 

Orchids, 1982 by Robert Mapplethorpe

Orchids, 1982 by Robert Mapplethorpe

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Most of what the federal government does is subsidize consumption.

I have for years said that the primary objective of any government is to ensure long term productivity growth.  Everything else desirable follows from real porductivity growth.  No productivity growth and all you get is unpleasant decline.

From Cutting Entitlements by Douglas Holtz-Eakin.  Saying basically the same thing in a different way.

Most of what the federal government does is subsidize consumption. The federal budget is just a big machine that takes money from saving and investment and transforms it into consumption. And the only way economies grow successfully is to defer consumption, save and invest for the future. So, it is stacked to make things perform worse. I want to stack it the other way.

History

Facial reconstruction of an Early Neolithic Farmer from Agiorgitika, Peloponnese. pic.twitter.com/vscs4jSDII

— Ancestral Whispers (@Sulkalmakh) October 18, 2024

 

An Insight

One of the most cited and esteemed Alzheimer's and Parkinson's researchers, Eliezer Masliah, has turned out to be a fraud.

He headed the National Institute of Aging's neuroscience division and might have set back the field by years or even decades. pic.twitter.com/wzsMkHsq5u

— Crémieux (@cremieuxrecueil) October 11, 2024